CNet’s Casey Newton:

Speaking at the TED Conference today in Long Beach, Calif., Brin told the audience that smartphones are “emasculating.” “You’re standing around and just rubbing this featureless piece of glass,” he said.

Is there some sort of competition going on between Google executives to see who can say the dumbest, most tone deaf thing?

Alternate title for this post: “Those phones we make? They suck.”